Vivien Leigh quote: "I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world."

I am going to be a great actress.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I've always been mad about cats.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like...
VIVIEN LEIGH

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can...
VIVIEN LEIGH

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly a...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake val...
VIVIEN LEIGH

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, ...
VIVIEN LEIGH

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care abou...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
VIVIEN LEIGH

It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh
VIVIEN LEIGH

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bat...
VIVIEN LEIGH

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.
VIVIEN LEIGH

My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happine...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I'm not afraid to die.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why ...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I always know my lines.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier...
VIVIEN LEIGH

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?
VIVIEN LEIGH

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
VIVIEN LEIGH

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
VIVIEN LEIGH

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act...
VIVIEN LEIGH

Life is too short to work so hard.
VIVIEN LEIGH

Of course I'm a publicity hound. Aren't all crusaders? How can you accomplish anything unless people...
VIVIEN KELLEMS

Our tax law is a 1, 598-page hydra-headed monster and I'm going to attack and attack and attack unti...
VIVIEN KELLEMS

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
RENEE VIVIEN

I learned then that I could not tolerate any kind of bigotry or hatred, absolutely none,
VIVIEN SPITZ

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.
LEIGH LEZARK

I'd like to add that negotiating is not something to be avoided or feared - it's an everyday...
LEIGH STEINBERG

The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
LEIGH STEINBERG

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.
RACHAEL LEIGH

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
RACHAEL LEIGH

They're not poodles, they're art.
RACHAEL LEIGH

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebo...
LEIGH BRACKETT

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction w...
LEIGH HUNT

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through...
LEIGH HUNT

They are orphans again, with no true home but each other and whatever life they can make together on...
LEIGH BARDUGO

You're very welcome," she said, giving my hair a hard tug. "You should be used to being gawked at by...
LEIGH BARDUGO

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
LEIGH BARDUGO

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
LEIGH HUNT

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
LEIGH HUNT

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
LEIGH HUNT

The groundwork of all happiness is health.
LEIGH HUNT

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
LEIGH HUNT

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
LEIGH HUNT

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; t...
LEIGH HUNT

Colors are the smiles of nature.
LEIGH HUNT

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking throug...
LEIGH HUNT

Better terrible truths than kind lies.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat...
LEIGH BARDUGO

He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I'm a business man," he'd told her. "No more, no less."
"You're a thief, Kaz."
"Isn't that...
LEIGH BARDUGO

We are all someone's monster.
LEIGH BARDUGO

When everyone knows you’re a monster, you needn’t waste time doing every monstrous thing.
LEIGH BARDUGO

It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is ta...
LEIGH BARDUGO

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for 'good luck.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower,...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Stolen kisses are always sweetest
LEIGH HUNT

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it i...
LEIGH HUNT

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.
JULIA LEIGH

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
LEIGH HUNT

I'm very good with sunglasses. There are things like... maybe headphones - either they're st...
LEIGH LEZARK

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
LEIGH HUNT

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or ...
LEIGH STEINBERG

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you ha...
LEIGH STEINBERG

She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Services are the present and future development trend for enterprise software. We've all agreed to s...
ANDREW LEIGH

China allowed Australia to diversify away from Japan as it hit its slump.
ANDREW LEIGH

The Australian model - which was a fair degree of liberalization but not the full Chicago school tre...
ANDREW LEIGH

Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH

This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing sun, shorn of mystery and sh...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Why waste my anger on you when the fault is mine? I should have anticipated another betrayal from yo...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I've been waiting for you a long time, Alina" He said. "You and I are going to change the world.
LEIGH BARDUGO

The Darkling slumped back in his chair. “Fine,” he said with a weary shrug. “Make me your vill...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and ...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I took a breath. “Your highness—”
“Nikolai,” he corrected. “But I’ve also been kn...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I've seen what you truly are," said the Darkling, "and I've never turned away. I never will. Can he ...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Why won’t you leave me alone?” I whispered one night as he hovered behind me while I tried to wo...
LEIGH BARDUGO

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.
LEIGH BARDUGO

I will strip away all that you know, all that you love, until you have no shelter but mine.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Watch yourself, Nikolai,” Mal said softly. “Princes bleed just like other men.”
Nikolai p...
LEIGH BARDUGO

The less you say, the more weight your words will carry.
LEIGH BARDUGO

When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.
LEIGH BARDUGO

The problem with wanting," he whispered, his mouth trailing along my jaw until it hovered over my li...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO

In this moment he was just a boy -brilliant, blessed with too much power, burdened by eternity.
LEIGH BARDUGO

He leaned against the window, and the gilded frame came into sharp focus. “Do you think it would b...
LEIGH BARDUGO

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.
LEIGH BARDUGO

At some point, Jesper realized Kaz was gone.
"Not one for goodbyes, is he?" he muttered.
...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Don't let anyone or anything drown out that still small voice that says, "You were made for more.
KIRSTIN LEIGH

I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularl...
JULIA LEIGH

Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessl...
LEIGH LEZARK

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. ...
LEIGH BARDUGO

Inej turned to go. Kaz seized her hand, keeping it on the railing. He didn't look at her. "Stay", he...
LEIGH BARDUGO

You were like a stranger, Alina. Beautiful," he said. "Terrible.
LEIGH BARDUGO

They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.
LEIGH BARDUGO

I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even ...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I'm sorry it took me so long to see you, Alina. But I see you now.
LEIGH BARDUGO

Love is never worth giving up on.
LEIGH FALLON

Know what suits you. I would never wear brown, because it just doesn't work with my pale skin an...
LEIGH LEZARK

By the time I'm through sweeping you off your feet, you will be bursting at the seams, begging me to...
T.K. LEIGH

She couldn't turn away from the eyes that held her. Eyes as deep, as Dark as the night, yet there wa...
LORA LEIGH

This is going to sound crazy, but... from the moment I first set eyes on you I haven't been able to ...
LEIGH FALLON

We can always find creative ways to do things.
LEIGH STEINBERG

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
LEIGH HUNT

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required read...
MITCH LEIGH

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consci...
MIKE LEIGH

What do you want then?"
The old answers came easily to mind. Money. Vengeance. Jordie's voic...
LEIGH BARDUGO

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.

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